This Is Not Part E in an Occasional Series
May. 9th, 2020 10:51 pm
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the_siobhan's; she gave me the letter E. So, this is how it goes ...
If anybody [of the 2.3 people who might read this] wants to play,
* Name a BAND (not a song, not a solo performer) that starts with the letter "E". No googling!
* I'll then give you a letter for you to repost.
My first thought was ... Eurythmics? Ergh. I mean, they're OK, but they're one of those bands that always bugged me a bit when I was a kid because of something about the vocalist's voice--whatever that accent is Annie Lennox sings with was somehow unpleasant to me. (Similarly, Tears for Fears always bugged me because Roland Orzabal (whose name I just looked up and I'm sure I've never known before) sounds like a singing penis, although it was not until Dave Gahan started singing similarly around Ultra that I realized that what he sounds like is a singing penis--specifically, an enormous and flaccid, probably purple, definitely moist, possibly oozing, singing penis.) Then after a few seconds I thought of Einsturzende Neubauten, which seemed like it was what I was going to have to go with, because ... who else starts with E? Before long I also came up with Echo and the Bunnymen, who've never really done much for me ... and then today Erasure, who, um, they're fine, but, meh. Finally tonight I remembered Engines of Aggression: sometime around 1995 I won their CD Inhuman Nature from the Queen's University radio station, CFRC (which claims to have been the second radio station in Canada after Toronto's CFRB (which of course has to make you wonder what happened to CFRA)--I've known since I was a kid that the "RB" in "CFRB" supposedly stands for "Rogers Batteryless"; CFRC claims, or at least was claiming when I was at Queen's, that their call letters stand for "Canada's Famous Rugby Champions", which, cool story bro!) which I listened to all the time as an undergrad. I won two things calling in to CFRC: that CD, and two tickets to I Mother Earth, when Edwin was still their singer and I guess they were barely anybody, which I went to with my friend E., who was in town on his way to BC, kicking off an epic bender. After drinking brandy and smoking cigars at my place we went to Stages and had Sambuca shots and E. puked. Then we went to Clark Hall Pub for beers. Anyway, winning the Engines of Aggression CD was one of those things where I was the jackass who hears there's a contest on the radio, calls in, wins, and then asks "what did I win?" I think I listened to the CD once, and maybe L. listened to it once, to agree that it never needed to be listened to again. I woulda said it was "hardcore punk" maybe; I'm surprised to see the label hung on them is "industrial metal". I was gonna say they were just one of those bands that came out of the '90s punk/industrial/metal/grunge blender, but that CD came out in 1994, so I guess you do have to give them some credit for being somewhere near the start of that wave.
In other news, there was snow on the ground here through the night last night. There was snow falling again today. This is the second spring in a row that I've thought this spring can't be as bad as last spring, and then it is worse. (March this year actually wasn't bad--the first "can you believe it's snowing again?!" day around here was sometime in late March. "Can you believe it's snowing again?!" got old several weeks ago.) The UW first-time-to-20-degrees contest has broken last year's record by three days and counting, after last year's contest broke the previous year's record by five days; the Accuweather long-range horoscopes suggest there's a chance it won't end until June. Pearson airport never even got to 15C in April. Luckily for me over the last year I have given up the last of my illusions about the economy of growing anything even for our own consumption, let alone for profit. I still do have a little greenhouse full of seedlings in the living room desperately waiting to get outside--after the various debacles of the last four years I can hardly be disappointed by whatever they end up doing (especially if, as seems likely, there will be no Coe Hill Fair this year), so at least there's that!
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Currently under my porch: 2.2. Currently at Crowe Lake: 3.3. High there today: 5.3.
the_siobhan's; she gave me the letter E. So, this is how it goes ...If anybody [of the 2.3 people who might read this] wants to play,
* Name a BAND (not a song, not a solo performer) that starts with the letter "E". No googling!
* I'll then give you a letter for you to repost.
My first thought was ... Eurythmics? Ergh. I mean, they're OK, but they're one of those bands that always bugged me a bit when I was a kid because of something about the vocalist's voice--whatever that accent is Annie Lennox sings with was somehow unpleasant to me. (Similarly, Tears for Fears always bugged me because Roland Orzabal (whose name I just looked up and I'm sure I've never known before) sounds like a singing penis, although it was not until Dave Gahan started singing similarly around Ultra that I realized that what he sounds like is a singing penis--specifically, an enormous and flaccid, probably purple, definitely moist, possibly oozing, singing penis.) Then after a few seconds I thought of Einsturzende Neubauten, which seemed like it was what I was going to have to go with, because ... who else starts with E? Before long I also came up with Echo and the Bunnymen, who've never really done much for me ... and then today Erasure, who, um, they're fine, but, meh. Finally tonight I remembered Engines of Aggression: sometime around 1995 I won their CD Inhuman Nature from the Queen's University radio station, CFRC (which claims to have been the second radio station in Canada after Toronto's CFRB (which of course has to make you wonder what happened to CFRA)--I've known since I was a kid that the "RB" in "CFRB" supposedly stands for "Rogers Batteryless"; CFRC claims, or at least was claiming when I was at Queen's, that their call letters stand for "Canada's Famous Rugby Champions", which, cool story bro!) which I listened to all the time as an undergrad. I won two things calling in to CFRC: that CD, and two tickets to I Mother Earth, when Edwin was still their singer and I guess they were barely anybody, which I went to with my friend E., who was in town on his way to BC, kicking off an epic bender. After drinking brandy and smoking cigars at my place we went to Stages and had Sambuca shots and E. puked. Then we went to Clark Hall Pub for beers. Anyway, winning the Engines of Aggression CD was one of those things where I was the jackass who hears there's a contest on the radio, calls in, wins, and then asks "what did I win?" I think I listened to the CD once, and maybe L. listened to it once, to agree that it never needed to be listened to again. I woulda said it was "hardcore punk" maybe; I'm surprised to see the label hung on them is "industrial metal". I was gonna say they were just one of those bands that came out of the '90s punk/industrial/metal/grunge blender, but that CD came out in 1994, so I guess you do have to give them some credit for being somewhere near the start of that wave.
In other news, there was snow on the ground here through the night last night. There was snow falling again today. This is the second spring in a row that I've thought this spring can't be as bad as last spring, and then it is worse. (March this year actually wasn't bad--the first "can you believe it's snowing again?!" day around here was sometime in late March. "Can you believe it's snowing again?!" got old several weeks ago.) The UW first-time-to-20-degrees contest has broken last year's record by three days and counting, after last year's contest broke the previous year's record by five days; the Accuweather long-range horoscopes suggest there's a chance it won't end until June. Pearson airport never even got to 15C in April. Luckily for me over the last year I have given up the last of my illusions about the economy of growing anything even for our own consumption, let alone for profit. I still do have a little greenhouse full of seedlings in the living room desperately waiting to get outside--after the various debacles of the last four years I can hardly be disappointed by whatever they end up doing (especially if, as seems likely, there will be no Coe Hill Fair this year), so at least there's that!
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Currently under my porch: 2.2. Currently at Crowe Lake: 3.3. High there today: 5.3.
